Author: Blazingcatfur

Why Did Beto Return a $1 Million Donation from FTX Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried 4 Days Before the Election?

O’Rourke’s people, and possibly other Democrats, may have known something before Sam Bankman-Fried’s investors knew it.

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)’s “I’ve had a bad month” stands alongside Ron Burgundy’s “Milk was a bad choice” as an understatement.

Investors put something close to $2 billion into his cryptocurrency outfit FTX only to see it evaporate along with SBF’s fortune. For the allegedly defrauded FTX investors looking for their lost money, SBF’s tailor and barber — just a hunch — probably did not get their hands on any of it.

The campaign coffers of people with Ds affixed to their names did contain a lot of this money. But since the scandal broke just days after the election — how convenient, for some! — good luck getting any of it back. Democrats excel at giving away other people’s money, just not their own.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime

Formal inquiry launched into transgender charity Mermaids

Regulator announces highest level of investigation after leadership concerns

The Charity Commission has launched a statutory inquiry into the transgender charity Mermaids after identifying concerns about its management.

The regulator said the inquiry — its most serious form of investigation — was triggered by “newly identified issues” around the youth charity’s “governance and management”.

It had already announced a compliance case into Mermaids following safeguarding concerns, but a statutory inquiry marks a significant ramping up of its examination of the charity. It will try to establish if there was any mismanagement or misconduct by trustees.

Nuremberg 2.0 is needed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

What we learned at Emergencies Act inquiry after six weeks of testimony

The Public Order Emergency Commission, which is led by Justice Paul Rouleau, has heard how the protests fractured supply chains, made a mockery of the capital city’s police and dented Canada’s international reputation. Amid all the revelatory details, Justice Rouleau has said that his focus remains squarely on the federal government’s decision to give itself the power to rule by executive order.

Despite the government’s extensive disclosures, it has not lifted the veil of solicitor-client privilege. The legal opinion that the government relied on to invoke the act remains hidden from the commission, the public and from the Parliament that retroactively voted on the use of the act.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Switzerland plans to BAN electric cars from the roads during power shortages in a bid to reduce energy consumption

Switzerland will ban the use of electric cars for ‘non-essential’ journeys if the country runs out of energy this winter, the government has announced.

Emergency plans drawn up in the event the Swiss are hit by blackouts also call for shop opening hours to be reduced by up to two hours per day, heating systems in nightclubs to be turned off, and other buildings to be heated to no more than 20C.

Crisis measures could see streaming services and games consoles banned, Christmas lights turned off, and all sports stadiums and leisure facilities closed.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters"

Lt.-Gen. (retd) Maisonneuve: Clearing the air about my anti-woke speech

After spending five decades defending Canada’s security, democratic values, and its citizens’ right to free speech, I am astonished at how my remarks upon accepting the Vimy Award three weeks ago have been misrepresented and distorted. Some organizations I worked with have decided to cut ties with me as a result; so as my attempted cancellation continues, I take this opportunity to comment on the aftermath of an anti-woke speech.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Cancel Culture", "Peak Woke", Canada

New York eyes ‘somewhat bloodthirsty’ rat supremo to take on city’s rodents

Hate rats? Are you a “somewhat bloodthirsty” New Yorker with excellent communication skills and “a general aura of bad assery”? Then you might have what it takes to be the city’s new rat tsar.

City mayor Eric Adams’s administration posted a job listing this week seeking someone to lead the city’s long-running battle against rats. The official job title is “director of rodent mitigation,” although it was promptly dubbed the rat tsar. Salary range is $120,000 to $170,000.

“The ideal candidate is highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty, determined to look at all solutions from various angles, including improving operational efficiency, data collection, technology innovation, trash management, and wholesale slaughter,” reads that ad. The posting is whimsical, but the job is daunting.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Snubbed by Canada, Germany goes all-in with autocratic Qatar for its gas

The assholes destroying Canada.

After an energy-hungry Germany was snubbed by Canada, Berlin has instead gone all-in on a gas contract with Qatar, the small, autocratic nation currently hosting the World Cup.

This week, German firms announced a 15-year contract to buy roughly two million tonnes of LNG per year of Qatari natural gas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Federal government already preparing for what organizers call ‘Freedom Convoy 2.0’

The federal government is already preparing to deal with a new convoy protest being planned for February, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser told a parliamentary committee Thursday evening.

Testifying before a special committee of MPs and senators set up to study the government’s use of the Emergencies Act to shut down the protest that paralyzed downtown Ottawa and blocked several border crossings last winter, Jody Thomas said officials are aware a second convoy protest is in the works and her colleague Mike MacDonald, assistant secretary to the cabinet for security and intelligence, has already begun to prepare.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Police slammed for ‘erosion of public confidence’ with mixed messages in Idaho student murders

Authorities investigating the brutal quadruple murder of four University of Idaho students are shaking the public’s confidence in their investigation — and even confusing former FBI investigators.

Police in Moscow, Idaho have been joined by state and federal agents to find the killer, but so far revealed little information other than the murder weapon was a knife and the attack was “targeted.”

However, on Wednesday night at a press conference authorities walked even that information back — only to re-clarify they were sticking by the original statement the next day.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

MPs shocked rabid Jew Hater attended Parliament Hill reception for International Death To Israel Day

Appropriately named Nazih Khatatba

MPs condemn controversial publisher’s attendance at Parliament Hill reception

The Liberal MP who chairs the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship group is among multiple Canadian politicians condemning the presence of a man accused of being a “Holocaust denier” at a Parliament Hill reception held earlier this week to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

Salma Zahid, the Liberal MP who chairs the all-party friendship group, condemned the views of Nazih Khatatba, the publisher and editor of a Toronto-based Arabic-language newspaper, who Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman told the House of Commons Thursday was “a dangerous antisemite, Holocaust denier, and terrorist sympathizer.”

Bullshit, this is Laith Marouf 2.0. They’re apologizing because they got caught.

Get used to it multiculturalists, this is the diversity you wished for and you shall have it in ever increasing abundance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Anti-Semitism and the Left, Canada, Islam, Islam and hatred of Israel, Islam and hatred of Jews, Islam and violence, Islam's 5th Column, Islamization of the West

CNN bloodbath: Network fires Chris Cillizza, Alison Kosik, Alex Field, Martin Savidge and Robin Meade – AND scraps HLN’s live programming

The latest round of layoffs at CNN has hit some of the network’s biggest names.

Political analyst Chris Cillizza, 46, who has been covering national politics, the White House and Congress for the cable giant since 2017, after coming over to the network from The Washington Post, was among those who were let go this week, Variety reported.

Business correspondent Alison Kosik, 51, who covers the New York Stock Exchange and has been at the network since 2007 was nixed. She earns an average annual salary of between $100,000 and $145,143.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media

Canada Summoned Chinese Ambassador Over Reports of Unofficial Police Stations on Canadian Soil

Canada has made official complaints to the Chinese ambassador in regard to reports of unofficial Chinese police service stations operating in Canada, a senior official from the foreign affairs department told MPs.

Weldon Epp, director general for Global Affairs Canada’s Asia Pacific Bureau, testified at the House Canada-China committee on Nov. 29, that his department has formally raised objections to the China ambassador in response to reports of over 50 unofficial Chinese police service stations around the world. The revelations were first reported by Spain-based human rights NGO Safeguard Defenders in a September report aimed at investigating Beijing’s long-arm policing and transnational repression.

“We’ve had several engagements. We’ve called the ambassador in on multiple occasions, and we’ve conveyed our deep concern,” he said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Germany’s armed forces have ‘two days’ of ammunition

After nine months of war in Ukraine, all Nato countries are short of shells — but thanks to cuts and complacency the situation is particularly acute in Germany

In the basement of an east Berlin hotel, a couple of curious punters eye up a rocket-powered spy plane designed to hurtle through the lower reaches of space at more than five times the speed of sound.

Nearby, a suited man with an expression of childlike absorption pilots a tiny swarm drone with minute precision through the keyboard of a MacBook Air.

A colonel from the Mongolian army, decked out in a sky-blue dress uniform with magnificent golden braids, looks a little lost next to a Lockheed Martin stand bristling with swishy avionics.

I suggest they fall back to the Reichs Chancellery.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"